Seeking Asylum Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border

Name: Seeking Asylum Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border
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ISBN: 9780816665389

ISBN-10: 0816665389

ISBN-13: 9780816665389

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alison Mountz

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In July 1999, Canadian authorities intercepted four boats off the coast of British Columbia carrying nearly six hundred Chinese citizens who were being smuggled into Canada. Government officials held the migrants on a Canadian naval base, which it designated a port of entry. As one official later recounted to the author, the Chinese migrants entered a legal limbo, treated as though they were walking through a long tunnel of bureaucracy to reach Canadian soil.The "long tunnel thesis" is the basis of Alison Mountz's wide-ranging investigation into the power of states to change the relationship between geography and law as they negotiate border crossings. Mountz draws from many sources to…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 4/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: Struggles to Land in States of Migration



Human Smuggling and Refugee Protection



Seeing Borders Like a State



Ethnography of the State



Crisis and the Making of the Bogus Refugee



Stateless by Geographical Design



In the Shadows of the State



What Kind of State Are We In?


Notes


Bibliography


Index